210 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



or flesh colour, it forms altogether a singular 

 and pretty flower, but rather of a stiff than a 

 graceful nature. They have a slight scent, 

 just before the petals expand, and the colour 

 is then of a fine rose tint, but when fully 

 opened they are of a pale flesh colour ; and 

 as each of these small corollas has about 

 twenty stamens, headed with a yellow anther, 

 it may be called Titania's pin-cushion, as the 

 racemes appear to be crowded with fairy 

 pins. 



It appears, from Rea's Flora, that the com- 

 mon spiraea frutex was cultivated in our 

 gardens previous to 1665. 



This shrub is encreased by suckers, or by 

 parting the roots in the autumn. 



The Hortus Kewensis notices seventeen 

 species of spiraea, besides several varieties. 



